Festo’s high-tech bioreactor - 10/11/2022 Valuable materials of all kinds - produced automatically in living cells In future, algae could be used to produce practically everything that still requires petroleum, including plastics, fuels, medicines and food. Algae are also climate savers par excellence, because they bind ten times more CO2 than terrestrial plants. Festo, a company based in Esslingen, Germany, has developed a high-tech bioreactor that can be used to automatically cultivate the small green biofactories - and that do so a hundred times more…https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/news/valuable-materials-all-kinds-produced-automatically-living-cells
Event - 01/12/2022 European Resources Forum (ERF 2022online) Online, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/european-resources-forum-2022
Press release - 02/11/2022 Blind spots in the monitoring of plastic waste Whether in drinking water, food or even in the air: plastic is a global problem - and the full extent of this pollution may go beyond of what we know yet. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners from the Netherlands and Australia, have reviewed conventional assumptions for the transport of plastic in rivers.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/blind-spots-monitoring-plastic-waste
Event - 15/11/2022 From Linear to Circular: Bioeconomy within the prospects of a circular economy in Serbia Belgrade und Novi Sad (Serbia), Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/final-conference-godanubio
Press release - 21/10/2022 Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung supports research project on wood-based materials at the University of Freiburg The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding the "DELIVER - Data-driven Engineering of Sustainable Living Materials" project at the University of Freiburg in its "CZS Wildcard" program. In the project, scientists from the Freiburg Clusters of Excellence CIBSS and livMatS will develop sustainable wood-based materials whose properties can be precisely controlled.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/carl-zeiss-stiftung-foerdert-forschungsvorhaben-der-universitaet-freiburg-zu-holzbasierten-werkstoffen
Dossier - 19/10/2022 More food sustainability: crucial for people and for the environment Strawberries in winter and imported apples? You can find them in most supermarkets. This is not sustainable. Looking to the future, the way we eat needs to change in many mundane ways – and this needs to happen quickly so that future generations will also be able to enjoy a planet that is worth living on. In Baden-Württemberg, alternative nutrition concepts are being worked at pace. Many creative ideas and innovative products already exist.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/dossiers/more-food-sustainability-crucial-people-and-environment
Event - 03/11/2022 GoDanuBio Transnational Dialogue: A Policy Round Table on Bioeconomy in the Danube Region Online, Informationsveranstaltung https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/godanubio-transnational-dialogue-policy-round-table-bioeconomy-danube-region
Press release - 10/10/2022 Recyclable food packaging: quality control for nanocoatings Across the EU, more than 300 billion items of packaging are not recycled every year because they consist of a mixture of different materials. Monomaterial packaging on the other hand is easy to recycle. However, it needs to be coated with ultra-thin barrier layers to protect delicate products just as well as compound materials do. https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/recyclingfaehige-lebensmittelverpackungen-qualitaetskontrolle-von-nanobeschichtungen
Press release - 10/10/2022 For Animal Welfare & Environmental Protection: State lays cornerstone for new "HoLMiR" research center More animal welfare and better animal health, more climate protection and less environmental impact: Researchers at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart are pursuing these goals with a new approach: They are exploring the interplay between farm animals and the millions of microorganisms in the animals’ digestive tracts. The federal and state governments are supporting the university with the construction of a unique research center for around…https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/fuer-tierwohl-umweltschutz-land-legt-grundstein-fuer-neuartiges-forschungszentrum-holmir
Press release - 06/10/2022 New Electrolysis Processes for Sustainable Chemical Production Basic chemicals, which are needed as raw materials for a wide range of products such as medicines and detergents, can currently only be produced with an enormously high input of energy and raw materials. In many cases, fossil fuels and raw materials are still used. The extraction of chemical substances alone requires high temperatures, expensive catalysts made of precious metals and, in some cases, environmentally harmful starting materials. https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/neue-elektrolyseverfahren-fuer-eine-nachhaltige-chemische-produktion
Press release - 05/10/2022 Flood protection during rain events, cooling of buildings and urban spaces during heat waves The glass facade of a high-rise building can get so hot that you can fry eggs on it – a major factor in the overheating of our cities. At the same time, flood events such as torrential monsoon rains cause billions of dollars of damage annually. On October 4, 2022, a solution to both problems was presented at the University of Stuttgart.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/flood-protection-during-rain-events-cooling-buildings-and-urban-spaces-during-heat-waves
Büsnau biorefinery - 05/10/2022 KoalAplan: municipal wastewater as a source of recyclable materials Our wastewater not only contains dirt and excretions, but is also rich in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, which can be recovered. A sewage plant can thus become a source of raw materials. In the KoalAplan project, a new type of biorefinery will be used to convert the carbon recovered from wastewater into sustainable products.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/news/koalaplan-municipal-wastewater-source-recyclable-materials
Event - 10/11/2022 Biopolymers – Renewable Raw Materials for the Circular Bioeconomy Online, Registration deadline: 07/11/2022, Online-Forum https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/biopolymere-erneuerbare-rohstoffe-fuer-die-zirkulaere-biooekonomie
Event - 14/11/2022 - 16/11/2022 The European Summit of Industrial Biotechnology Graz (Austria), Registration deadline: 07/11/2022, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/european-summit-industrial-biotechnology
Press release - 29/09/2022 Algae as microscopic biorefineries Fossil raw materials are limited and not available and extractable everywhere in the world – as we are becoming acutely aware of right now by the example of fossil fuels and rising energy prices. Renewable raw material sources will therefore play an increasingly important role in the future: as energy sources, but ideally also as suppliers of building blocks for more environmentally compatible chemicals and materials.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/algen-als-mikroskopische-bioraffinerien
Event - 19/10/2022 - 20/10/2022 Future of Biofuels 2022 Copenhagen (Denmark), Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/future-biofuels-2022
Event - 12/10/2022 - 13/10/2022 ThinkTech! Alternative Proteins Stuttgart/Quakenbrück, Registration deadline: 01/10/2022, Educational programme https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/thinktech-alternative-proteins
Event - 07/10/2022 Industria Biotech Berlin, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/industria-biotech
Event - 28/09/2022 - 29/09/2022 Biomass PowerON 2022 Hamburg, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/biomass-poweron-2022
Event - 27/09/2022 - 29/09/2022 VertiFarm Dortmund, Messe https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/vertifarm
Event - 23/09/2022 Jülich Biotech Day Jülich, Informationsveranstaltung https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/juelich-biotech-day
Press release - 12/09/2022 Bioeconomy between food and energy crisis - Opinion of the Bioeconomy Council In its statement of September 2, 2022, the Bioeconomy Council of the German government condemns the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine and points out ways in which the resulting food and energy crisis can be alleviated with the help of the bioeconomy.https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/articles/pm/biooekonomie-zwischen-ernaehrungs-und-energiekrise-stellungnahme-des-biooekonomierats
Event - 28/03/2023 - 29/03/2023 Deutsche Biotechnologietage (D.B.T.) 2023 Wiesbaden, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/deutsche-biotechnologietage-dbt-2023
Event - 14/11/2022 - 15/11/2022 The Advanced Recycling Conference Online & Cologne (Germany), Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/advanced-recycling-conference
Event - 06/10/2022 - 07/10/2022 EU Bioeconomy Conference 2022 Online & Brussels (Belgium), Registration deadline: 01/10/2022, Kongress/Symposium https://www.biooekonomie-bw.de/en/events/eu-biooekonomie-konferenz-2022